Venezuelan Australians ( es, venezolanos australiano) refers to

Australian citizens Australians, colloquially known as Aussies, are the citizens, nationals and individuals associated with the country of Australia. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or ethno-cultural. For most Australians, several (or all) ...

of Venezuelan people, Venezuelan descent or birth. According to the 2021 Census there were 6,627 Venezuelan-born citizens who were residing in Australia at the moment of the census. There are an estimated 10,000 Australians of Venezuelan ancestry according to a study of Ivan De La Vega from Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela), Simón Bolívar University. Almost 76% of Venezuelan Australians are concentrated in Eastern Australia.

History and cultural background

Small numbers of Venezuela-born have migrated to Australia since the 1960s, but the majority, about 72.9% of the population, arrived in Australia after 2001 as a part of the brain drain of the Venezuelan diaspora. Most came as skilled migrants, because of uncertainty of economic conditions in Venezuela.

Ancestry

According to the , 42.1% of Venezuelans reported to have Venezuelan ancestry, 13.9% Venezuelans reported to have Spanish Venezuelan ancestry, 8.1% of Venezuelans reported to have Italo-Venezuelan ancestry, 3.4% of Venezuelans reported to have English Venezuelan ancestry and 32.4% of Venezuelans reported to have other ancestries, including Portuguese Venezuelan.

Education and professions

83.7% of Venezuelan Australians over 15 years of age had a form of higher non-school qualifications. 57.6% had an occupation that was either being a skilled managerl, professional or in trade.

Language

The main language spoken at home by Venezuela-born people is Spanish language, Spanish in a 77.7% followed by English language, English with 13.8%. With a difference to others Hispanic Australian diasporas that speaks mainly Romance languages and English languages, an important percent of Venezuelan-born people main language spoken at home is Arabic language, Arabic in 2.6%. The remaining 6% speak others language at home (2% of them speak Italian language, Italian, and at least 1% of them speak(s) Portuguese language, Portuguese).

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